Naija Poetry | Lessons from the coronavirus pandemic

Gold Felix

Biography: Gold Felix is critical thinker who sees good in bad situations. I'm passionate about humanity and i staunch advocate for realism. Contact Email - felixgpromise92@gmail.com Twitter- i_am_GoldFelix

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Friday 1 May 2020

Lessons from the coronavirus pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic is almost done

But there are lessons to be learned

Though, at home we stay daily, idling away

Not knowing what our next meal would be

Like prisoners of war, we have been confined

By an insane contagion that has vowed to

End the human race

Bereaving us of the pleasures of good neighbourliness

Stealing our freedom before our very eyes

Day after day, we quiver in shock

As cases soar

My countryman who pats my back in sympathy

When i cough, now runs for cover

Nevertheless, we must learn

The pandemic will soon be over

But lesson learnt must be imbibed

It may have robbed us of the amusement of classroom learning

Kept our factories and worship centres under lock and key, leaving

World trade centres deserted like lonely cemeteries

But in jealousy must we keep the practice of the hygiene

And without neglect should we treat

Our beloved comrades in the frontline of action

Who at the risk of their lives

Daily pay the supreme price

In honour and glory must their names be remembered in history

The COVID-19 pandemic has packed its luggage

Ready for departure

But the world must not forget that

Without regard for social status

It descended on the hispanics as it did the Caucasians and Mongoloids

Without discrimination,

It is ravaging the blacks as well as the people of colour

A deadly virus, ruthless and devastating in form and action, yet, sensible enough to defy racial classification

Then humans must learn

The pandemic is leaving us in peace

Whether it likes it or not

But it has exposed in full glare the pains of the ordinary Nigerian

Left at the mercy of palliatives from men and women with deep pockets

In beds of constant hunger and anguish we have laid Even before the virus visited our shores.

The pandemic didn't cause our suffering

It accentuated it

Though, those blinded by sentiments would disagree

As well as those in the corridors of power who

Allowed themselves to be outrightly deceived By unworthy praise singers with

No regard for truth or humanity

But, a man of good conscience knows how helpless an ordinary Nigerian can be.

The war against the pandemic will be won in no distance time

But it has reminded us that we need more factories than worship centres.

More entrepreneurs than religious leaders

Who flaunt their affluence before our eyes

Their flamboyance, night and day we toil to keep

I'm not against religion

Neither am i in support of the incessant looting in deceit

Religion is rewarding

And so is a paycheck

The end of the pandemic is near

But it has thought us, we can only build the nation of our dreams in unison

Regardless of ethnic, religious or political affiliations.

Haven't foods flown across borders in the course of the pandemic?

Driven across states

And paddled across geo-political zones

From the ends of the North to the far South

From the far East to the West?

In good spirit and brotherhood we have eaten, not minding where they are from

When and when the pandemic ends

Let it be known that in oneness, unity and courage, we fought and conquered.

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